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Staying in with Bear Lawrence
December 2, 2022 lindasbookbag
It gives me enormous pleasure today to welcome Bear Lawrence to Linda's Book Bag to stay in with me to tell me all about a book I think will resonate with many of us. Let's find out more:
Welcome to Linda's Book Bag Bear and thank you for agreeing to stay in with me.
I've brought along my first book published on Amazon, Bear with ME. It's actually the third book that I have written, but the others wouldn't be of interest to most people.
What makes you say that?
The other two books include my Biomedical Engineering PhD thesis and a novel I co-wrote with a friend years ago, which even I don't like!
Hmm. Fair point!
I've chosen Bear with ME because it's been written to raise awareness of Long Covid, Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS.
That sounds extremely important. So, what can we expect from an evening in with Bear with ME?
Bear with ME will make you laugh and it will make you cry. It's a collection of humorous, heart-breaking and heart-warming stories based on my own experiences. Fortunately, and unfortunately in some cases, I've a lot of stories to draw on from jobs as varied as being a gardener to a university lecturer. I've also lived in various parts of the world from as warm as the Caribbean to as cold as Norway.
It sounds like you've had quite a life. Tell me more.
When I was diagnosed with the chronic illness, ME/CFS, my life was turned upside down. Once a dynamic, hard-working person, I now had a debilitating and hidden disability. Frustrated with difficulties in explaining my illness to friends and family, I decided to write an article, 'me and my ME' for the local parish newsletter to raise awareness in the local community.
When the editor of the parish newsletter told me it would be a few weeks before I saw his finished article in print, I decided to put it on a Facebook ME/CFS page. The response was astonishing with a 'love', 'care' or 'like' being clicked from all over the world. The article was read thousands of times within a couple of weeks.
Buoyed by this success, I decided to write a second article to raise awareness but outside of the ME/CFS community. 'Motorbikes, Helicopters, PTSD and ME' was the result and it was also read thousands of times online.
After writing three more articles to raise awareness, I hoped that I might also be able to help those touched by Long Covid, Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS. I wrote five more articles with this aim in mind.
With ten articles written, I realised that writing the back to story to each of these articles would make a book. Understanding the importance of editing and book cover design, I worked with illustrators, designers and an experienced editor to produce the best book that I could. The cover has a drawing of a Bear holding hands with a small blue monster. The monster represents ME and it is blue after the colour of the ribbons used to raise awareness of ME. Blue and purple are used for the text on the cover, purple ribbons being used to raise awareness for Fibromyalgia. The illustration and book cover has struck a chord amongst people with chronic illness and poor mental health.
I feel very privileged to be featuring you here Bear. I had no idea about the significance of the colours and if we can raise awareness of chronic illnesses in ways that will help I'm more than happy to do so.
I hope that after reading even one article that reader would have more understanding of some of these chronic conditions. My big hope is that like himself, you too will become an 'Awarenessist' after reading Bear with ME!
I'm going to have to read Bear with ME soon to find out!
What else have you brought along and why have you brought it?
I've brought a little bit of advice. One of my articles is titled, 'Has ME changed me?' Whilst it has unquestionably physically changed me, it has not changed me fundamentally as a person. I remain kind and empathetic. I also remain daring, although not in the sense of daring such as snow-boarding, sky-diving or snake charming. My daring is writing with such honesty and openness that it can make a person weep. People with chronic illnesses are often grieving for their old selves and depressed. My advice is to sit or lie down with your favourite snacks and drinks, and let the furball cuddle in and enjoy life!
I think that's wonderful advice regardless of the experience you're going through Bear. Thank you so much for sharing a little bit of your story with me. It's been a real pleasure to chat with you about Bear with ME.
Bear With ME is a collection of humorous, heart-breaking and heart-warming stories and articles. All were inspired by true events experienced by the author, Bear Lawrence, who has led a quite remarkable life. 'Bread, Biscuits and Murder', 'Motorbikes, Helicopters, PTSD and ME', 'me and my ME' and other astonishing, inspiring, educating stories will leave you both laughing and crying as Bear reveals his soul.
These stories and articles were written to raise awareness and help those touched by Long Covid, Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS. The back story to each of these makes for compelling reading in a book you'll struggle to put down. Bear hopes that like himself, you too will become an 'Awarenessist'.
Bear with ME is available for purchase here.
About Bear Lawrence
Bear Lawrence has enjoyed an interesting life. He's worked as a delivery driver in Norway, a helicopter tour pilot in the Caribbean and a helicopter flight instructor in Oregon. In the UK, he's been a sales assistant, gardener, landlord, biomedical engineer, university lecturer and award-winning inventor. He's even found time to race motorbikes, yachts and karts.
Diagnosed with ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia, Bear now writes articles and books to raise awareness of chronic illnesses and hidden disabilities. These are also intended to help those touched by Long Covid, Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS in particular. He wants people to join him in being an Awarenessist!
For more information, find Bear on Twitter @BearLawrence1, Facebook and Instagram.


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2018 International Conference on Aeronautical, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AAME 2018)
Material Performance Testing and Analysis
Effect on the Formation of Magnetite Reduced Graphene Oxide with Controlled Stirring Duration
Xin Hui Yau1,2, Cheng Seong Khe1,2, Mohamed Shuaib Mohamed Saheed1,2 and Chin Wei Lai3
1 Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, 32610 Perak, Malaysia
2 Centre of Innovative Nanostructures and Nanodevices (COINN),Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia
3 Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre (NANOCAT), Institute of Postgraduate Studies (IPS), University of Malaya, 3rd Floor, Block A, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Graphene is a promising material due to its fascinating properties, such as mechanical, electronic and thermal properties. Graphene based hybrids materials also have been widely studied due to its wide applications, such as sensors, energy storage and conversion, electronic device and others. The current study presents the synthesis of magnetite-reduced graphene oxide (M-rGO) nanocomposites through in situ chemical synthesis at different stirring durations. This synthesis process involves the redox reaction between the iron(II) salts and graphene oxide (GO) sheets. Various techniques were employed to characterize the synthesized M-rGO nanocomposites. From X-ray diffraction (XRD) results, the crystal structure of M-rGO was found to be independent on the stirring duration. Three magnetite vibrations, D band and G band were observed in Raman spectrum of M-rGO with 24 hours stirring duration. From Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis, M-rGO with 24 hours stirring duration showed the strong intensity of Fe-O vibration. Thus, this indicated that a large amount of magnetite nanoparticles were covered on the surface of rGO sheets. This result is further supported by the morphology of nanocomposites from scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and the elemental analysis (EDX). A monolayer of rGO sheet (C= 33.79 atomic %) with full coverage of magnetite nanoparticles (Fe= 30.20 atomic %) was found for the M-rGO with 24 hours stirring duration. Overall, M-rGO require 24 hours of continuous stirring to ensure full coverage of magnetite nanoparticles on the surface of rGO sheets.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
ZnO/rGO nanocomposite layer as a sensitive layer for simplistic ethanol vapor sensor and UV light detector
Preparation of Graphene Oxide from Lignin by Gel Combustion Method and Its Performance as Supercapacitor
Direct laser writing of graphene oxide for ultra-low power consumption memristors in reservoir computing for digital recognition
National Science Open 1: 20220020, 2022
Facile assembly of two-dimensional functional ZnO quantum dots/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites
EPL, 109 (2015) 18004
Controllable formation of graphene and graphene oxide sheets using photo-catalytic reduction and oxygen plasma treatment

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eharmony Relationship Advice » Date Guide » Blonde Ambition's 5 Brisbane dates under $50
Blonde Ambition's 5 Brisbane dates under $50
by eharmony
Blonde Ambition's Brooke Falvey shares her favourite cheap and cheerful Brisbane date ideas.
Have you ever spent days deliberating over a date venue, wondering if it's got the right vibe, friendly staff and great food and/or drinks? The good news is I'm here to help (at least for those who live in Brisbane). Consider me your gastronomic love guide. While long-written off as a big country town, Brisbane has come into its own in recent years and now boasts a veritable feast of places to eat, drink and dance your way into someone's heart. Here are five of my favourites.
A late night supper club and bar, Farrier is the newest addition to Fortitude Valley's James Street precinct, tucked away underneath the iconic QA Hotel. The bar's decor is a nod to the venue's former life as stables with beautiful black and white artworks of horses, exposed brick walls and striking metal work features. There are comfy couches to make yourself at home in, as well as little nooks and crannies, and dark corners for doing dark deeds (yes I stole that line from Love Actually). While my date settled on a beer, I decided to spice things up with The Passion, a fruity mix of Vodka, Cointreau, Chambord, passion fruit, lime and apple ($16).
There's something intimate about sharing food so we ordered the Blow Torched Scallops served in a crispy turmeric wafer taco; Rustic Spiced Sweet Potato Chips served with Japanese mayo ($10.50); and the BBQ Pork Steamed Buns served with Hoi Sin sauce ($10.50) and weren't disappointed by either offering.
Opening hours: 12pm to 2am, seven days a week.
Chester St Bakery & Bar
A bakery by day, Chester Street serves up coffee, signature cakes, desserts and sourdough bread as well as an all-day (everyday!) brunch menu, but it's when the lights go down that things heat up with late night desserts and cakes as well as a full bar with beer, wine and hand-crafted cocktails. On Friday and Saturday nights they also fire up the wood fired pizza oven. On my recent visit, my date and I shared a Brown Sugar pizza, a mouth-watering combination of meatballs, pancetta, provolone, bourbon and barbeque sauce ($25) before sharing a dessert.
After drooling in front of the delectable range of desserts and cakes which include a Rainbow Cake, Salted Caramel and Chocolate Cake and Mini Oreo Cheesecake, we settled on the Snickers Cheesecake topped with Oreo pieces which comes served in a parfait glass ($10).
We then experienced the time-honoured tradition of the spoon battle to see who could get the most. He's a chivalrous guy so, naturally, I won. Located down a side street in Newstead, Chester Street offers both indoor and alfresco dining in a casual and relaxed environment. There's onsite and street parking available and it's just a short walk from the restaurants and bars of James Street, as well as the cinemas if you're not quite ready to say goodnight after catching a movie.
Opening hours: 7am to late (brunch until 3pm), seven days a week
Billykart Kitchen
Located in a revamped old corner shop, Billykart Kitchen boasts an intimate, homely feel with a touch of the eclectic. It's like eating breakfast (or lunch or dinner) at your favourite kitchen table but knowing you don't have to clean up afterwards. The staff are friendly and knowledgeable about the day's specials and what options are available for the fresh juices (think watermelon, carrot, mint, ginger and orange to name a few) so you can create your preferred blend. Owned and operated by Chef Ben O'Donoghue, the breakfast menu is available daily until 11.30am and serves up seasonal produce including Date, Apple and Quinoa Bircher Muesli with Roasted Coconut, Hazelnut & Pecans; Ricotta Buttermilk Pancakes with coconut caramel bananas; and Poached or Scrambled Eggs on sourdough. I had the Crispy Corn Fritters with avocado and heirloom tomatoes ($18) while my date had the Scrambled Eggs with sourdough ($12). Despite being satisfied with my breakfast and freshly-squeezed orange juice ($7.50), I couldn't help but eye off the assorted baked goods on offer at the counter before settling on some fresh flowers and stretching my legs in the nearby park. Billykart Kitchen is a fully licensed venue with great daily specials and all day dining on weekends. Street parking is available.
Opening hours: Tuesday – Thursday: 6:30am (kitchen opens from 7.00am) – 5:00pm. Friday: 6:30am – 9:00pm. Saturday – Sunday: 7:00am – 2:00pm
Riverlife
Located right on the Brisbane River, Riverlife is the perfect inner-city playground for unbeatable adventures. Live out your wildest dreams rock climbing the Kangaroo Point Cliffs, taking a Segway spin under the majestic Story Bridge or gliding down the river in a nighttime kayak with the dazzling city lights as your backdrop. If chilling out is more your speed, they also offer regular events featuring some of Brisbane's hottest bands and DJs, or simple grab and boutique beer on a Sunday afternoon and watch the river float by. Activities include stand up paddle boarding, Segway, abseiling, rock climbing, cycling, kayaking and rollerblading, with prices ranging from $20 per person for cycling to $139 for the Segway & BBQ or Segway and Prawn experience. Limited parking is available on site but you can also park at the top of the cliffs and walk down the stairs. Rock climbing with Riverlife is $55 per person.
Opening hours: 9am to 9pm, seven days a week
Madame Wu
With views overlooking Brisbane's iconic Story Bridge, Madame Wu proclaims itself to be a bar and restaurant best suited for those with "exquisite taste and a desire for the exotic".
Boasting a modern Asian silhouette, Madame Wu's mood lighting, romantic view and magnificent bamboo entrance with sculptured tree will transport you to a far-off place.
They have an extensive wine cellar, signature cocktail list and have both a resident Sommelier and Mixologist (cocktail maker). While we perused the menu and admired the view, I started with a Summertime Punch mocktail ($10) which was a tantalising blend of pineapple and cranberry juice mixed with a passion fruit and watermelon puree. As well as their cocktail list, they also have cocktail jugs and mocktails available. Food wise, we settled on a mixture of share plates including the pumpkin, sweet potato & water chestnut rice noodle roll ($10); pan fried scallop dumplings, verjus butter, black tobiko ($20); and moreton bay bug dumpling, xo & lime ($18) and it's impossible to pick which was my favourite because they were all so good.
Opening hours: 12pm until late, seven days a week
By Brooke Falvey, Blonde Ambition
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Q: Google Sheets Conditional formatting autofill? I have the following conditional formatting
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I want to be able to auto fill this formatting to the other columns so the 'Z' column formula would look like this:
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A: Autofill is not necessary for conditional formatting. You just need to change the area where the formula will apply (this formula is available for the top left cell and will automatically apply to all others in the area)

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API and Usage documentation is now automatically generated and deployed to github pages. You'll find the usage documentation in /docs if you want to make any changes.
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This implementation is inspired and thus borrows heavily from Ruby on Rails' ActiveRecord. We have tried to maintain their conventions while deviating mainly because of convenience or necessity. Of course, there are some differences which will be obvious to the user if they are familiar with rails.
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Die British Showjumping Association, kurz BSJA, ist der britische Verband für Springreiten in Großbritannien.

Die BSJA wurde 1923 vom damaligen Earl of Lonsdale gegründet und verzeichnete anfangs 197 Mitglieder. Es ist eine von 16 Organisationen, die Teil der British Equestrian Federation sind. Die BSJA stellt die Reiter für das Vereinigte Königreich bei internationalen Wettbewerben und legt die Regeln bei einheimischen Springturnieren fest, von denen sie 4200 jährlich organisiert. Im Jahr 2008 hatte der Verband 17 691 Mitglieder mit 18 962 registrierten Pferden und Ponys. Aktuelle Vorsitzende des Verwaltungsrats ist Liz Edgar.

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Sportverband (Vereinigtes Königreich)
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Schools wrap up position shifts
By Jacqueline Reis TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
The school district is making several staff changes this summer.
Robert E. Jennings Jr., principal of Dr. Arthur F. Sullivan Middle School, will become wraparound zone project manager for the district starting Aug. 1.
Recent federal, state and local efforts are attempting to help students overcome nonacademic barriers to academic success by connecting students and their families with �wraparound� services, which could include referrals for healthcare, housing or other needs.
Mr. Jennings will work with four schools that are the recipients of a recent state wraparound zone grant (Chandler Magnet School, Goddard School of Science and Technology, Woodland Academy and University Park Campus School), the city�s state-designated Level 4 schools (Chandler Elementary Community and Union Hill schools), the district�s five innovation schools (previously mentioned schools and an academy at Sullivan Middle) and those within the proposed Main South Promise Neighborhood area for which the United Way of Central Massachusetts hopes to get federal funding.
The position, while new, will be funded with federal Race to the Top grant funds, not local tax dollars, according to Superintendent Melinda J. Boone.
She said Mr. Jennings applied for the position.
�He has great skills in working with families,� she said.
Starting this month, Jason V. DeFalco is the new principal of Sullivan. Mr. DeFalco was a principal most recently in Somerville, and prior to that in Southbridge, where he led the Mary E. Wells Middle School. He was part of a team that unsuccessfully tried to start a charter school for Grades 6 through 8 students in Worcester in 2009, and Ms. Boone said yesterday she was impressed by him when she met him that year.
Mr. DeFalco had applied to lead Elm Park Community School when the Sullivan vacancy arose, Ms. Boone said.
Paula F. Proctor, principal of Wawecus Road School, is the new principal of Elm Park Community School. She replaces acting Principal Joanna Bowolick.
The district is advertising for a new principal for Wawecus Road, Ms. Boone said.


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Creating an efficient user experience is not an easy task and does not have a "proven recipe." Standard approaches and practices are not applicable to UX, where each and every case is unique and unrepeatable. The nuances in business model, application work, or target audience that may seem insignificant at first glance can play a decisive role in success of UX, and, thereby, of your product. The main criteria that really matters in UX is whether it fixes your users' problem.
Many entrepreneurs think that they may forget about UX once and for all after inviting a UX specialist to a project. In fact, creating a good UX requires participation of at least three parties. Shall we take a closer look at them?
Think of me as Captain Obvious, but I do not get tired of repeating: when we think over user experience, we should rely on users' needs. Although this is not very hard to understand, you will be surprised to hear how often people forget about it.
Rigorous gathering and analysis of user expectations is the number one job to start working on UX. Moreover, remember well that you create UX for them, not for yourself. So, your comfort using the product does not count if it does not match the way your users feel.
A bright example below shows how much you can go wrong, if you do not bother to ask you audience what they need.
Once we have been involved in upgrading a system used by operators of an airport call center to assist passengers in booking and buying airplane tickets. Searching the departure and arrival points was one of the main tools for operators to provide fast and quality service to end-users. When analyzing the future UX, we have suggested to apply here one of the best practices that is widely used by hundreds of similar resources. That is to tie the search to airport names or names of cities, where airports are located. As regular users, we considered this approach as a proven and handy way to map a route. Imagine how astonished we were, when we heard back: "We don't need it that way." After some negotiations, it turned out that searching by cities and airports names take more time than entering airport alphabetic codes, which every operator learns by heart at the very first day of the work.
It happens, of course, that there is no possibility to ask users directly, and you are forced to step on a slippery path of guessing. Then a business owner and a UX specialist should do their best to walk in users' shoes and think through as many user scenarios as can be.
define your target audience and get a fix on why and how people are going to use your product or service.
Here is another important thing that I didn't mention in that interview. Treat your users with equal care regardless whether they are your customers or your employees. It is a common delusion that only external users determine success of a product.
It is true that if an app or a service is inconvenient to use, eventually it will just fade out. When it comes to systems designed to simplify and optimize the inner work of a company, user experience is often not taken seriously. Therefore, instead of skimming the cream off investments made to optimize employees work, businesses get unhappy and inefficient people forced to use a system that is neither handy, nor easy to use.
So, do not neglect your internal users' opinion. Who but they know best how to streamline your corporate products and systems and make their daily work more productive.
A UX specialist should act as an expert able to see and recognize the nuances that may affect the eventual success of a service or product. Here's another example worth mentioning, since it demonstrates how a slight difference in the audience portrait may change user experience.
An application our team has been working on was intended as a tool for parents to motivate their children to learn, go for sports, help with household chores, etc. Using this solution, parents could set goals and reward kids for achieving those goals. Studying user scenarios, we discovered an interesting fact: two-parent and solo-parent families required different sets of features. In the first case, a kid could inform parents about the work done in person, while in the latter they needed a chat to communicate. Different conditions dictate different approaches even when a user portrait remains almost the same.
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Many people believe that only a UX specialist with a relevant experience in a specific industry can create an effective UX. Surely, a UX expert should dive into the domain and understand the customer's business. At the same time, the lack of experience in a particular industry should not become a stop factor. Extensive experience in different areas endows a UX specialist with a certain open-mindedness that can bring fresh ideas to user experience of your application.
What makes a good UX specialist?
Surely, it is an ability to see certain common factors in users' behavior and understand how to adapt a product to these regularities. Technically, any person, who can do that already is a UX specialist, even if he or she doesn`t have it written down in a resume.
Who is in charge of UX?
A good UX is a teamwork of business owners, product users, and a UX specialist, where every party of the process should be able to hear the other party and understand their needs.
What it takes to create an effective UX?
Take attention to every little detail, since it may count for a great deal later. Remember that best practices and solutions that are considered convenient in most cases may not be applicable for specific needs of your audience. Be able to compromise in order to give your users a handy tool for solving their problems.
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Typically you see these queries in stored procedures but for the sake of convenience, I'm going to just use variables and ignore the difference between variables and parameters.
Pro:	Maintenance is easy. You only have a single query and it's easy to add a new parameter or make changes to the query as needed.
Con:	Performance stinks. This format is not SARGABLE. So even if you have an index on LastName (for example) it won't be used for that particular clause.
Con:	Maintance stinks. We need 16 different queries when we have 4 parameters and the numbers increase dramatically as we add additional parameters. So any change we make to the base query will have to be changed 16 times, and/or adding a new parameter means careful logic and adding a bunch of new queries.
Pro:	Even though we don't have to physically write a separate query for each combination of parameters we still get a separate query plan for each one. Not to mention that they are SARGABLE so indexes can be used. Because of all this we get the best possible performance for each query. Maintenance isn't so bad either. Adding another parameter isn't trivial but it isn't overly difficult either.
Con:	Lots of people are afraid of dynamic SQL. It isn't nearly as simple as writing a regular query, although with some practice it isn't all that hard.
I'll admit I was a bit lazy here and didn't do the performance proofs I could have for the three options I've described. But aside from the fact that I like shorter blogs, I also think people learn better when they try things for themselves. Consider this homework. Next time you need a query like this try the single query and the dynamic query and do some performance tests of your own.
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*nod* It's certainly one of the best I've seen.
Aren't you opening up yourself up to SQL injection attacks with the dynamic query? Especially in this case where you appear to be taking human input?
In that case I'm constructing the dynamic SQL to have a literal string and then execute it. That opens us to a risk of @City = "'test"; drop table blah;' or something similar.
In all my tests it is faster than your first query, but probably still not sargable and not nearly as fast as the parameterized dynamic SQL. Thanks for the great tip.
Great example! I've seen that one around a lot too. And you are right, it isn't sargable and won't be nearly as fast as the dynamic version. Thanks for the comment!
Is there an easy way to print (debug) what is being executed in sp_executesql, where it shows the query with the values, and not with the parameters?
Not to my knowledge. No more than you can get the parameters for a stored procedure. If you think about it it's really a security thing. The parameters being used could give you information you aren't supposed to have.
Thanks for the article, I've been trying to learn dynamic sql but I need examples so that it's easier to understand and grasp the concepts.
Note how I set the parameter = to something when I created it. Now that parameter is optional. Or am I misunderstanding your question?
Ahh .. I'm talking about a stored procedure running without having to pass in a parameter. If you don't give it a default value then the parameter is required and the call will fail without it.
Which now that I look at the post and your original comment has absolutely nothing to do with what you were saying.
Starting again: You might check the setting of ANSI_NULLs. It can change the behavior of how NULLs are treated. It's still safer to handle them separately just in case though.


TThe Post Office has used the full color flag in many stamps. It has appeared with astronauts on the moon, with firemen at the World Trade tower and waving behind Lady Liberty.
As the new school year approaches, many classrooms will start the day or week with students and teachers reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Teachers will discuss the vocabulary of the Pledge; What is a pledge? What does allegiance mean? What type of government is a Republic? What are the definitions of liberty and justice? Are those rights guaranteed for all citizens? If so, how?, but when will students learn the history of the Pledge?
In 1892 Francis Bellamy, native of Rome, N.Y., a former minister and socialist, took a job with a magazine, The Youth's Companion. In order to increase subscriptions, the magazine started selling U.S. flags to schools and assigned Bellamy to write a pledge to the flag that would be repeated on Columbus Day of that year. Bellamy's original Pledge stated, "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands – one nation indivisible- with liberty and justice for all." The word "to" was inserted before "the Republic" then the entire Pledge was published in the September issue of the magazine. Thousands of leaflets were also sent out to schools encouraging teachers and students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance on Oct. 12, 1892. In addition to the Pledge, participants were instructed to make the Bellamy salute, At the words, "to my Flag," the right hand is extended gracefully, palm upward, toward the Flag, and remains in this gesture till the end of the affirmation; whereupon all hands immediately drop to the side.
How has the wording of the Pledge changed, and why? In 1923, My Flag was changed into The Flag of the United States. In 1942 Congress made the Pledge of Allegiance official and also stated that the "hand over heart was the appropriate stance, not the salute", which was too Hitler- like. In 1954, during the fears of the Cold War, President Eisenhower's administration added the words, "Under God".
In teaching the Pledge, teachers might also include a discussion about the meaning of the colors and stars in the flag, as well as where students see the flag flying in the community. What is proper flag etiquette? Why is the Star Spangled banner sung at sporting events, but the audience does not recite the Pledge? The Post Office issued its first full color flag stamp on July 4, 1957. If students look closely, discuss why the flag has only 48 stars.
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ENVELOPES MAY BE SMALL BUT CARRY HUGE MESSAGES!
Each FDC Lessons eBook provides the teacher with warm up or review lessons including first day cover images as well as other primary sources as called for in the lesson. Each lesson is based on the students analyzing the images found on a first day cover (an envelope containing a commemorative stamp, appropriate postmark and artwork). The lessons provide the teacher with strategies to hook students on the topic of study, such as questions targeting the 5W/H as well as analyzing, generalizing, drawing inferences or conclusions, and cause and effect. Images can be projected onto a white board for whole class discussion or printed out for individual student work. Other primary sources (diary entries, letters, resolutions and excerpts from speeches) where appropriate may be included in the lesson, and each lesson has a concluding activity. The lessons can be a quick introduction to a fuller lesson all ready created by the teacher, or it can be a way to provide students with the images and facts needed to remember the history necessary to pass the state standardized tests. Lessons provide procedures, discussion questions, teacher notes, activities, Web sites, and one to four color reproductions of the first day covers. The eBooks are in pdf format. When purchased, each will be downloaded directly to your computer.


The word "mucusless," or mucus-free, refers to foods that aren't pus or mucus-forming contained in the human body. 2. Shallow fats frying where a bit of oil is used to prevent the food from sticking to the frying pan, as in frying eggs, pancakes or greens. They are normally fats-free and contain a number of power for the body to make use of throughout train. Three foods seem to stand out as real enemies of those affected by environmental allergies and sinus issues resembling: Sinus pressure, PND (post-nasal-drip), chronic manufacturing of inexperienced and yellow mucus, sinusitis, and many others.
This can be a good technique of cooking, as cheaper and tougher pieces of meat can be cooked with different ingredients to make them and higher flavored. Advisable each day intakes are 6-eleven milligrams, a number simply attained by consuming leafy green vegetables or foods wealthy in vitamin C.


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Q: Test for Set Intersection Using Map Iterator I'm trying to write a function to find a weak Sidon sequences (a sequence (ai) where ai + aj is different for all i < j) of arbitrary length, starting at 1.
This is what I have so far:
def weakSidon(sequence_length):
    """Finds a weak Sidon sequence (a sequence (a_i) of integers where a_i + a_j for i < j are all unique) of the necessary length."""
    sequence = [1]
    sums = []
    while len(sequence) < sequence_length:
        test_integer = sequence[-1] + 1
        test_sums = list(map(lambda x: test_integer + x, sequence))
        while any(x in list(test_sums) for x in sums):
            test_integer = test_integer + 1
            test_sums = list(map(lambda x: test_integer + x, sequence))
        sequence.append(test_integer)
        sums = sums + test_sums
    return sequence

This works (and, as I realized after doing this, just ends up being a stupid way of generating the Fibonacci sequence sans the first element), but converting the map iterator to a list and then immediately iterating over it in the generator on the next line seems silly and I'd like to know how to avoid that kludge for the future, if possible.
Any other general suggestions for simplification (particularly for that repeated test_sums assignment) are of course appreciated.

A: Evaluating x in a for some iterator a will consume some or all of a. And evaluating list(a) will consume all of a. In your generator (x in list(test_sums) for x in sums), the expression x in list(test_sums) is evaluated once for every element in sums.
So if you didn't listify the result of map immediately, then your check (x in list(test_sums) for x in sums) wouldn't work as expected -- by the time later elements from sums get tested, test_sums has already been consumed and the expression list(test_sums) is []. I found it helpful to check out a simpler example of this kind of situation in the interpreter.
Python actually has a built-in set data type (link). Determining membership in a set is a constant-time operation, so if you're doing a ton of membership checks (like here) then using them is a good idea. But we can actually get rid of the any(x in a for x in b) construction (beautiful as it is) and just be direct, because Python also defines intersection and union on sets. If a and b are two sets, then a | b is their union and a & b is their intersection.
So your code using sets would be:
def weakSidon(sequence_length):
    sequence = [1]
    sums = set()
    while len(sequence) < sequence_length:
        test_integer = sequence[-1] + 1
        test_sums = {test_integer + n for n in sequence}
        while test_sums & sums:
            test_integer += 1
            test_sums = {test_integer + n for n in sequence}
        sequence.append(test_integer)
        sums |= test_sums
    return sequence

(the |= operator is to | what += is to +).
I had never heard of Sidon sequences before, but I think it's really funny that the Fibonaccis turn out to be one.

A: There are two main issues with your code.
The first is that you're calling list every time you test if a sum is within your test_sums list. all(x in list(test_sums) for x in sums) calls list a large number of times, and since test_sums is already a list, that's just wasted cycles.
The second issue is that list membership testing is slow in general, even if you're not copying the list first. It's much faster to test membership in a set, so you should probably use one here.
If you make sums a set, and change which sequence you're iterating on in your all call to take advantage of the fast set.__contain__ test, you'll get something like this:
def weakSidon(sequence_length):
    """Finds a weak Sidon sequence (a sequence (a_i) of integers where
       a_i + a_j for i < j are all unique) of the necessary length."""
    sequence = [1]
    sums = set()                                   # start with an empty set
    while len(sequence) < sequence_length:
        test_integer = sequence[-1] + 1
        test_sums = list(map(lambda x: test_integer + x, sequence))
        while any(x in sums for x in test_sums):   # testing set membership is O(1)
            test_integer = test_integer + 1
            test_sums = list(map(lambda x: test_integer + x, sequence))
        sequence.append(test_integer)
        sums.update(test_sums)                     # update set items
    return sequence

You can't get rid of the one list call to turn the map generator into an actual list, because you will need to access the test_sums values again in the update step if there were no collisions.


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Q: Allow nuget to download missing packages in Azure AppService Iam trying to deploy a asp.NET application with Azure AppService. But at the end it fails and the message says :
    error : This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer. Use NuGet Package Restore to download them.  For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=322105. The missing file is ..\packages\Microsoft.Bcl.Build.1.0.21\build\Microsoft.Bcl.Build.targets.
Failed exitCode=1, command=dotnet publish "D:\home\site\repository\test.WebApp.V1\test.WebApp.V1.csproj" --output "D:\local\Temp\8d77908b55668cc" --configuration Release
An error has occurred during web site deployment.
\r\nD:\Program Files (x86)\SiteExtensions\Kudu\85.11108.4192\bin\Scripts\starter.cmd "D:\home\site\deployments\tools\deploy.cmd"

I have no experience with asp dotNet Frameworks or even C#, but i understand that it tries to download some dependencies from nuget, but did not manage.
How can i tackle this issue ? thanks

A: Based on this D:\Program Files (x86)\SiteExtensions\Kudu\85.11108.4192\bin\Scripts\starter.cmd "D:\home\site\deployments\tools\deploy.cmd"
I assume you are using Kudu to deploy.
Do the instructions from this thread work?

Go to Kudu Console for your site
Go to d:\home\site\repository
Run 'nuget restore' from here

A: If you're using dotnet core, just go to the project directory, open a cmd from it and run:
dotnet restore

In case you're using dotnet framework:
Enable automatic package restore by choosing Tools > Options > NuGet Package Manager, and then selecting Automatically check for missing packages during build in Visual Studio under Package Restore, then just build the solution and it will retrieve the missing packages.
More info in here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/package-restore


Effectively managing salt affected irrigated lands and judicially using irrigation water of marginal salinity quality requires understanding the interactions among many inputs. They include soil salinity, crop salt tolerances, soil physical properties, irrigation water quality, irrigation management, water table depth and quality, climatic factors and crop yield. Visualizing the simultaneous interactions among this many factors over a cropping season extends beyond the capacity of the human mind.
An interactive computer program was developed to simulate the interactions among the above factors. It shows how changing one factor impacts the outcome of the other factors for a single growing season. The user selects a climate, a crop, and soil characteristics from menu lists, and then sets the water table depth and quality, irrigation (river or well) water quality and then develops an irrigation schedule. On execution, the relative yield reductions due to over irrigation, under irrigation, and salinity, water table rise or fall and surface runoff are shown numerically for the growing season. Soil water content, soil salinity, water table depth changes and rain and irrigation events during the season are also shown graphically.
This is an educational tool designed to teach the concepts of salinity and irrigation management and IS NOT an irrigation scheduling program nor a management tool. Two versions have been developed, one using metric units, southern hemisphere growing seasons and Australian terminology, and a second using northern hemisphere growing seasons, with units and terminology currently used in US irrigated agriculture. An option in the US version also allows use of metric units.
The SWAGMAN acronym and the SWAGMAN-Whatif program copyrights are owned by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) of Australia. The SWAGMAN acronym is not to be used for other programs.
SWAGMAN v1.5 from 1994 - Downloadable from this site, but no longer under active development.
1. Create a new directory, copy WHAT15-A.EXE into it, and run WHAT15-A.EXE. This expands the files compressed inside WHAT15-A.EXE.
2. If you get an error stating you've exceeded your license, delete the file USERLOG.RND.
3. Run WHATIF.EXE. Press Enter to get past the graphic splash-screen logo, the press Escape after reading the disclaimer.
4. To leave the program, go to the File menu and choose Quit.
Meyer, W.S. and Robbins, C.W. and Prathapar, S.A. (1995) SWAGMAN-Whatif Software and User Guide. CSIRO, Griffith, NSW, Australia.
Meyer, W.S. and Robbins, C.W. and White, R.J.G. (1995) SWAGMAN-Saltimeter. Charles Start University, Wagga-Wagga, NSW, Australia.


AUTO NEWS - Driverless automobiles would require one billion strains of code, says JLR - Automobile News and Trends - You must read this !
Self-driving automobiles will want round one billion strains of laptop code – almost 1,000 instances greater than the 145,000 NASA wanted to land Apollo 11 on the moon.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) gave the estimated determine as an example the seriousness of the necessity for extra individuals to grow to be certified coders in an effort to assist ship related and autonomous automobiles sooner or later.
The British producer says it wished to "encourage the following technology of software program engineers" by way of the Land Rover 4×4 In Faculties Know-how Problem – an academic initiative designed to encourage youngsters to aspire in the direction of STEM (science, know-how, engineering, maths and drugs) careers.
On the earth finals this yr, contributors got 30 minutes to write down 200 strains of laptop code to allow a scale mannequin Vary Rover Evoque to navigate a 5.7-metre circuit.
The programme that the problem is a part of has allowed JLR to achieve greater than 4 million younger individuals since 2000, with 110 college students from 14 totally different international locations qualifying for the world finals this yr, which have been held at Warwick College and received by the NewGen Motors staff from Greece, following two days of competitors.
This yr, JLR can also be launching a Digital Expertise Apprenticeship programme in an effort to entice laptop engineers to assist code its subsequent technology of electrical, related and autonomous automobiles, in addition to assist the agency's factories sooner or later.
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Notorious hostel claims yet another life
By Jeff Wicks - 16 April 2018
Glebelands Hostel
Image: ROGAN WARD
Durban police are investigating the murder of a 29-year-old man at the notorious Glebelands Hostel in Umlazi in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Community activist Vanessa Burger said that Lwando Gladine' a resident of Block 53' had visited Chief's Tavern at nearby Reunion with a friend.
"After leaving the tavern' instead of returning home' he went to Block 55' where he was stabbed to death at around 3am'" she said.
"This is the fifth murder at the hostel since the beginning of the year' bringing the total of those who have lost their lives in Glebelands-related murders – both at the hostel and elsewhere – to 107 since 2014."
Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane said that a case of murder was under investigation at the Umlazi police station.
"No arrests have been made and the matter is under investigation'" he said.
The hostel' administered by the eThekwini Municipality' is widely considered to be a hotbed of violence and crime. Comprising squalid and poorly maintained blocks' the hostel is overcrowded and run down.
The police have been hard-pressed to combat the killings and have deployed officers from outside the area amid allegations of police collusion with criminals.
During the Moerane Commission of Inquiry' established to probe political killings in KwaZulu-Natal' witnesses described the hostel blocks as a haven for hitmen and criminals.
Attacks by Glebelands hitmen are believed to include the shooting of former ANC Youth League secretary general and uMzimkhulu councillor Sindiso Magaqa. Magaqa was gunned down in July and later died in hospital.
-TimesLIVE


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Sidley Austin LLP Names Nadine M. Lacombe Director of Diversity
August 20, 2009, 2:58 pm 1.5k Views
LawFuel.com – August 21, 2009 – Chicago — Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Nadine M. Lacombe has joined the firm as the global Director of Diversity, effective August 17, 2009. Ms. Lacombe is a lawyer with years of experience in developing and administering policies and programs designed to promote and maintain a diverse and inclusive environment.
Ms. Lacombe will work in partnership with the firm's Diversity Committee and the Committee on Retention and Promotion of Women to advance Sidley's firmwide diversity initiatives, designed to achieve greater diversity not only for the firm but within the legal profession as a whole. She will be based in Chicago but will be actively working across Sidley's offices while performing her firmwide role.
"We are thrilled to welcome Nadine to our firm," said Stanley B. Stallworth, a Chicago-based real estate partner and firmwide co-chair of the Diversity Committee. "We have taken great strides to create and foster a diverse and inclusive work environment at Sidley, but we always strive to do better. We welcome Nadine's ideas, experience and enthusiasm in these efforts."
"I am very excited about this opportunity," Ms. Lacombe said. "Sidley is a leader in the promotion of law firm diversity. The firm's dedication to upholding its high standards for the advancement of women, people of color and the LGBT community demonstrates its commitment to excellence. I look forward to working with the team here to ensure that this tradition continues."
Ms. Lacombe joins Sidley from Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP, where she served as Director of Diversity and led their development and implementation of diversity policies. She was also the Deputy Director of the Office of Business and Workforce Diversity for the Illinois Department of Transportation, where she supervised the Small Business Enterprise and Civil Rights Bureaus. Prior to this, Ms. Lacombe was an Assistant State's Attorney and progressed to a position of Deputy Supervisor in the Public Interest Bureau at the State's Attorney's
Ms. Lacombe received a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.S. from the University of Illinois. She is a member of the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals, the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Black Women Lawyers Association and the Haitian American Lawyers Association.
"It is our mission to attract and retain outstanding lawyers who reflect the global marketplace that we serve," said Thomas Cole, Chairman of the firm's Executive Committee. "In order to nurture this mission, we have recruited top talent by hiring Nadine, who we are confident will be instrumental in helping the firm to reach the next stage of our diversity goals."
Sidley's commitment to diversity has included the creation of the Sidley Prelaw Scholars Initiative, launched in 2006, which seeks to encourage greater diversity in law schools by providing financial support during the law school application process to racially and ethnically diverse undergraduate students.
Sidley has received several honors for its diversity efforts, including being named a Best Law Firm for Women by Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers, a national consulting firm advising lawyers and legal employers on work-life balance and the retention and advancement of women, in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Sidley received a 'perfect' 100 score on the Human Rights Campaign's 2008 and 2009 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a report card on LGBT equality in corporate America. In 2005, the firm was honored with the Catalyst Award presented by Catalyst, the leading research and advisory organization dedicated to expanding opportunities for women and business. For more information on Sidley's commitment to diversity, visit http://www.sidley.com/ourfirm/highlights/diversity/.
Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world's largest full-service law firms, with approximately 1700 lawyers practicing in 16 U.S. and international cities, including Beijing, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. Every year since 2003, Sidley has been named to Legal Business' Global Elite, its designation for the 18 firms "that define the pinnacle of the legal profession." BTI, a Boston-based consulting and research firm, has named Sidley to their Client Service Hall of Fame as one of only two law firms to rank in the Client Service Top 10 for seven years in a row, and to the BTI Power Elite as one of only seven law firms demonstrating the best client relationships for the fourth consecutive year.
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The FC Vilshofen is a German association football club from the town of Vilshofen an der Donau, Bavaria.

The club's most successful era was from 1978 to 1985, when it spent six seasons in the tier three Fußball-Bayernliga, with a ninth place in this league as its best result. The club also reached the first round of the German Cup in 1979–80, where it lost 2–3 to FV Würzburg 04 after extra time.

The club's youth team twice reached the final of the Bavarian Under 19 championship in the 1970s and produced players like former German international Klaus Augenthaler.

History
FC Vilshofen was formed in 1919.

The club rose above local play in 1973, when it achieved promotion to the tier four Landesliga Bayern-Mitte. In this league, FCV spent the next five seasons, the first three of them struggling against relegation before taking out the league championship in 1977–78 and gaining entry to the Bayernliga. The club's first two seasons at this level were however a struggle and it was relegated at the end of the 1979–80 season.

In 1980–81, Vilshofen was immedialtey promoted from the Landesliga back to the Bayernliga again. Back in the Bayernliga, the club finished in ninth place for two consecutive seasons. After this, fortunes declined and the side finished 13th and 17th in the following years, finding itself relegated from the league again after the later result.

The club also enjoyed a number of cup successes in this era, taking out the Lower Bavarian Cup in 1982, 1983 and 1984 after having qualified for the first round of the German Cup in 1979.

After relegation in 1985, the club spent another ten seasons at Landesliga level, initially as an upper table side but, in 1994–95, the team suffered another relegation, dropping out of the Landesliga for good.

Vilshofen now entered the Bezirksoberliga Niederbayern, where it became a mid-table side. Gradually, the club declined at this level, too, and suffered another relegation, now to the Bezirksliga, in 2001.

The following season, the club dropped even further, to the Kreisliga, but immediately recovered and returned to the Bezirksliga. After five seasons at this level, the team won a league championship and earned another promotion.

The club returned to the Bezirksoberliga in 2008 with a much better performance then it left it seven years before, finishing consistently in the top third of the league and coming second in 2009–10. At the end of the 2011–12 season the club qualified for the promotion round to the newly expanded Landesliga, after finishing eighth in the Bezirksoberliga. FCV qualified for the Landesliga after a 4–1 extra time win in the third round of the promotion play-offs.

The club lasted for only one season in the Landesliga, finishing on a relegation play-off rank and losing to TuS Pfarrkirchen in the relegation round. The following season it suffered relegation again, now to the Kreisliga.

Honours
The club's honours:

League
 Landesliga Bayern-Mitte
 Champions: 1978, 1981
 Bezirksoberliga Niederbayern
 Runners-up: 2010
 Bezirksliga Niederbayern-Ost
 Champions: 2008

Cup
 Niederbayern Cup
 Winner: 1982, 1983, 1984

Youth
 Bavarian Under 19 championship
 Runners-up: 1971, 1975

Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onward were elevated one tier.

DFB Cup appearances
The club has qualified for the first round of the German Cup just once:

References

External links
 Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv  historical German domestic league tables
 Manfreds Fussball Archiv  Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues

Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Bavaria
Football in Lower Bavaria
Association football clubs established in 1919
1919 establishments in Germany
Passau (district)


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100. Good Luck Chuck (2007)
Dave and Noah say goodbye and Good Luck Chuck! This film stars Dane Cook, Jessica Alba and your worst migraine! At the age of ten, Dane Cook gets cursed by a Goth girl at a party, forcing him to live a life of always being the "one" right before any woman finds her ONE. After meeting Jessica Alba he decides he can't lose her to the next guy. There are lots of boobs in this. Dave and Noah take a walk down Fatty lane. Come join us for this extendo episode! Thanks for listening!
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99. The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)
This week Dave and Noah just can't keep a secret, The Secret of My Succes$! This 1987 Rom Com stars Alex P. Keaton himself, Michael J. Fox, along with Helen Slater and Richard Jordan. Fox is just a country boy from Kansas who moves to New York with dreams of becoming the next Donald Trump, a Trump with an even bigger propensity to screw family members. When his first job falls through, he calls his uncle who happens run a multinational conglomerate just down the block. He gets a job in the mailroom and falls for Helen Slater, a real blue plate special who works in accounting. The boss' wife throws herself at him while he takes over a vacant office, creating a fake personae that starts making great strides within the corporation. But falling stocks, a hostile takeover and an even more hostile libido of a horny aunt all conspire to ensare our wily Fox. Will the secret of his success be strong enough for a man, but PH balanced for a woman? Dave and Noah talk about how to range the Night, the film Ruthless People, a time to kill, love in an apple-crater and Dave's new band Horny Aunt Vera. Thanks for listening!
98. Youth in Revolt (2009)
This week Dave and Noah sing Que Sera, Sera with Michael Cera in 2009's crap trap Youth in Revolt. It stars Cera, Portia Doubleday, Zach Galifianakis, Ray Liotta and Steve Buscemi. After swindling a bunch of sailors, Zach Galifianakis has to take his girlfriend and stepson, Cera, on the run to Clearwater, CA. While they are hiding out in a trailer park, Cera falls head-over-heels with Portia Doubleday, the girl next door. When it comes time to leave, Cera arranges to win the favor of Doubleday through a series of juvenile delinquent acts that will get him kicked out of his mom's house and lead him back into arms of his trailer park princess. In order to accomplish this, Cera must create an alter ego named Francois to show him the ropes in juvenile debauchery. Que Cera, Cera, we hardly knew yee! You'll never guess what Dave and Noah have hidden in their closet! Plus, the topics of this week's podcast: the color of Steve Buscemi's parachute, Jonah Hills we'd die on, and a palette cleanser that is neither cleansing nor palatable.
97. 13 Going on 30 (2004)
Dave and Noah hop into a shoe closet time machine with Jennifer Garner and set the Flux Capacitor to 13 Going on 30, starring the Alias spy herself, Mark Ruffalo and Judy Greer. On the day of her 13th Birthday, Jennifer Garner makes a wish to be Thirty, Flirty and Thriving, just like the models in her favorite magazine. A shoe closet and some novelty wishing dust Rip Van Winkle her 17 years into the future. She's Thirty and Thriving all right, but flirting with amnesia! She's a big time magazine editor whose somehow lost touch with her childhood best friend, Mark Ruffalo. She has to get him back and take the nearest closet out of this alternate timeline, and quick, before she's 30 going on Botex! Dave and Noah are podcasting stealthily from a housesitting job in St. Paul. Shoe hoarding, Magazine rivalries, Golden Retrievers named Ruby and how to get rid of two corpses whilst handing out candy for Trick or Treaters are some of the many things discussed in this episode. Let's do the Time Warp Again!
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No dave. Noah goes Nanners Nanowrimo style. Plus, we read the Katy Perry issue of Entertainment Weekly.
96. Warm Bodies (2013)
This Halloween Dave and Noah experience love at first bite! After they finish their Hershey'sn KitKat bars they watch 2013's Warm Bodies starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, and that awesome dude from Hot Tub Time machine. The little boy from Nick Hornby's About a Boy is all "growed-up" and wearing Edward-Twilight-white-face for this daring romantic comedy about a zombie that puts down the brains for a beautiful blonde. This film turns Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet on its severed ear, giving us a Julie (Teresa Palmer) whose creepily powerful dad (John Malkovich) doesn't want her messing around with those goddamned Z-words, no matter how cute and red-hoody-licious they are. Join us as we witness the making of an inter-mortal relationship. We've got corpsey-fever! We've got corpsey-fever! Dave and Noah get fierce and flawless as they put their fashion skills to the test by giving Hollywood's classic monsters the makeover of their dreams! Michael Cera jokes are made and we belatedly mourn the passing of Dostoevsky.
95. Bedazzled (2000)
This week Dave and Noah make a deal with the Devil of all remakes: 2000's Bedazzled, starring Brendan Fraser, Frances O'Connor and Austin Powers' Fembot wife Elizabeth Hurley! Brendan sells his soul for seven wishes, and he uses them all for the love of his office crush, Frances O'Connor. Elizabeth Hurley plays the Prince of Darkness but even her 19 different costume changes of hotness can't make this terrible terrible movie any more bearable. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then this movie is heaven-sent! Noah makes a deal-a-meal with the Devil in Dave, Dave gets possessed by Tone Loc, and we reveal how to make a Pet Cemetery work for YOU!
94. The Wedding Planner (2001)
This week Dave and Noah discover that there's always room for J-LO! They are subjected to 2001's The Wedding Planner which stars Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras. Former In Living Color Fly Grrl J-Lo has put down the cross-colors and picked up a palm pilot, becoming San Francisco's premier wedding planner. However, the only thing she couldn't plan for was falling in love with the groom of one of her biggest clients! That's right, chollo, our former Maid in Manhattan is fare-hopping her way onto the McConaughey express, but not before the evil blonde bride Bridgette Wilson-Sampras can put a stop to it! The stakes have never been higher than medium rare. Dave and Noah plan each other's weddings. And we ordain the next Sausage Queen.
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93. License to Drive (1988)
This week Dave and Noah take a joyride, but not with '91 Swede-rock sensation Roxette, they join the two Coreys in a Caddy for 1988's License to Drive, starring Corey Haim, Heather Graham, Corey Feldman and a bottle of champagne so big, you'll never be able to fit it in your glove compartment! After flunking his written test for a driver's permit, Corey Haim gets asked out by the hottest Roller Girl in California. She's got a brand new pair of rollerskates and he's got the keys to his Grampa's precious Cadillac. But will he be able to get caddy back to his daddy in one piece? Dave shares his surefire methods of study for any student receiving a driver's education. Noah let's his inner gearhead shine and we pay tribute to a Corey who was put in Haim's way.
92. Lucas (1986)
This week Dave and Noah BUG OUT on 1986's Lucas, starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Wynona Ryder and Jeremy Piven. What Corey Haim lacks in social skills, he more than makes up for in his love for bugs! While out on one of his entomological quests, he comes across one damn fine specimen: Kerri Green, the new girl in town. He falls for her, but school begins and she yearns to take to the fields as a cheerleader. Corey joins the football team and endures a heap of homoerotic torture just to earn her love...but her heart has taken a shine to wide receiver Charlie Sheen. Winning! Dave flies to Burbank, California to interview the composer of Lucas' score. Noah suffers PTSD from having to watch a movie that involves sports.
91. Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
This week Dave and Noah take the McDreamy Express back to sKool!!! 1987's Can't Buy Me Love stars Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Seth Green and Malachai from Children of the Corn! Before he became Dr. McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey was 'lil McSpazzy, and through a convenient turn of events he secretly pays the most popular girl in his high school one grand to date him for a month. Popularity, sex, and a snazzy Columbus Day dance ensue, only to quickly succumb to a miscalculated tsunami-esque abundance of emotions, feelings and boring-ass intimacy. A young and annoyingly precocious Seth Green couldn't have said it better, "Something stinks in Suburbia." Dave and Noah share who they would like to rent for a month and Dave gives us a Palette Cleanser that puts the "ore" in "Whore"!
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90. Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
This week Dave and Noah crash the party of last century! Can't Hardly Wait from 1998 stars Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Seth Green and an assortment of other poor souls who have since succumbed to the Y2K crisis at the turn of the century. In order to earn her Ghost Whisperer wings, Jennifer Love Hewitt breaks up with the most popular stud in school. Hearing that Jennifer is footloose and fancy free, Ethan Embry takes it upon himself to put out the torch that he's been carrying for her his entire highschool career. He will pour his heart out to her at the Graduation Kegger that's raging at Molly's house. However, like the Hotel California, this party may have some brewskies on ice, but every person attending is a prisoner of their own device! Dave gives some sage advice to the class of 1998. Noah consults Wikihow for the what, when and where of life.
89. Just One of the Guys (1985)
This week Dave and Noah get their "just desserts" by watching Just One of the Guys from 1985. This poor man/woman's Tootsie stars Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner and "Johhny Lawrence" the Cobrah Kai bully from Karate Kid! Joyce Hyser almost has it all: a bangin' bod, a college boyfriend to bang her bod, her own swimming pool, a friend that wears Cosby sweaters and a sexually precocious little brother. However, her life can't be complete without a Summer internship at the Phoenix SunTimes. When her english teacher Mr. Raymaker chooses two boys over her for the coveted position, Joyce decides to literally grow a pair and submit her application as a man at a neighboring highschool. Gender Bender hilarity attempts to ensue, delivered unto us by a chariot of 80's pop synthesizers. Dave and Noah head to the Warren family farm to ready their back to school supplies lists. Tucked away in the dark hills of River Falls, Wisconsin, they are far from the reach of any surprise jock inspection.
88. The Nanny Diaries (2007)
This week Dave and Noah put down their food diaries and pick up The Nanny Diaries, starring Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Captain America and the ebony of all ivory: Alicia Keys! How far will Scarly Jo go to find herself this summer? Having just graduated with a degree in Anthropology, she randomly gets offered a job to be a nanny for Laura Linney's Upper East Side Strife. Minding a precocious brat whose parents alternate between being perpetually bitchy or lecherously horny to her, Scarly Jo soon catches the eye of Chris Evans, a Harvard Hottie who lives in the same building. Can his honky-but hunky love lift her up where she belongs? Only her Ethnic Best Friend Alicia holds the Keys to that quandary. There once was a Nanny named Dave, who minded a cruiseship of knaves....Noah becomes your ethnic best friend.
87. Grumpy Old Men (1993)
This week Dave and Noah get a case of the "grumpies" and head over to Wabasha, MN for 1993's Grumpy Old Men. This is the conclusion of our Four part Summer series Fatty Goes Local, where we celebrate all Rom Coms related to Minnesota. Grumpy Old Men stars The-Odd-Couple-turned-Old-timers Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. These two are proof positive that you don't need a family to have a feud, just a neighbor. Having spent decades feuding over the love of one woman, (who oddly enough isn't in the picture), Matthau and Lemmon find new realms in their contempt for each other after Ann-Margret moves in next door. Madison, the mermaid from Splash pops up in this, to give us a palette cleanser from all the liver spots. Noah tells us why we must avoid Lake Pepin. Dave gets blinded by a date, revved up like a deuce, which, in turn, makes him another runner in the night.
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Dave has turned around bright-eyed and isn't available. Noah has a birthday and the worst first week of being 34. Listen closely for the breakdown, right after the closing theme. Its a stolen moment of for reals.
86. She's All That (1999)
The dreck of the Nineties is alive in Dave and Noah's psyche as they suffer through 1999's She's All That starring Minnesota native Rachael Leigh Cook. This is part 3 of our summer series Fatty Goes Local, where we celebrate the fruits of our state's talent pool. Or talent-lake perhaps? With Eight weeks left of his high school career, big-man-on-campus Freddie Prinze Jr. gets dumped by Harrison High's most popular prom queen. Freddie wagers with his buddies that before the end of the school year he can turn any girl of their choosing into prom queen material. Enter Rachel Leigh Cook, Harrison High's most "hideous" art nerd, who, dig this, wears her hair in a ponytail and hides her peepers behind...GLASSES! Uh Freddie, you're gonna need a bigger corsage! Dave talks about how he became a potato farming Mormon for a year and Noah shares a story about how he once drove 20 miles to see a theatrical showing of Josie and the Pussycats...by himself.


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